EGEE position

1
EGEE position

• Fabrizio Gagliardi
• CERN
• fabrizio.gagliardi_at_cern.ch
• www.cern.ch/egee-ei

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EGEE statement

• EU and EU member states major investment in Grid
  Technology
• Several good prototype results
• Next Step
• Leverage current and planned national programmes
• work closely with relevant industrial Grid
  developers and NRNs
• create a general European Grid production quality
  infrastructure
• This can be achieved for a minimum of 100m/4
  years on top of the national and regional
  initiatives

applications
 
EGEE
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Projects features

• Integration of existing national and regional
  initiatives
• International cooperation (including EU and AP)
• Standards (through GGF)
• Actors Grid developers for academia and industry
• Tackle the challenge of usability, scalability,
  cost/performance
• Service models for fast uptake by industry
• Must provide supercomputing performance at
  commodity cost

4
. . . User Communities and Virtual Organisations
. . .
E-Grid Infrastructure
. . . Resource Centres . . .
Deployment andSupport Centres
Operations Centres
Operations Management Team

• Resource Centres which operate the individual
  resources participating in the E-Grid
• Deployment and Support Centres which deploy the
  middleware and provide expert support services
  for the E-Grid
• E-Grid Operations Centres which function as a
  single, distributed logical entity to manage
  day-to-day operation of the E-Grid
• An E-Grid Operations Management Team with overall
  responsibility for operation and service delivery
  of the E-Grid.

5

• First EU ERA Infrastructure call (June) - 45M (2
  years)
• EGEE aiming for and hoping for 37M
• Strong UK involvement
• GSC - CLRC
• NeSC - Edinburgh
• GNT - UCL
• EU call for Complex problem solving (200M
  Grids)
• expects to fund projects with good connections to
  EU infrastructure projects.
• Ditto for grid projects funded through other calls